DHAKA: Don't forget to wipe before you swipe the next time you are at Tokyo's Narita International Airport.

Toilets at the airport have been equipped with “toilet paper” that you can use to disinfect your smartphone, reports BBC.

Paid for by Japanese mobile giant NTT Docomo, the sheets also include information about the firm's public Wi-Fi networks as well as details about its smartphone travel app.

Social media users have reacted to the move with humour and disbelief.

The bizarre dispensers have been installed in seven restrooms and will remain in place until March next year, local media cited NTT Docomo as saying.

Japan is globally renowned for revolutionising its public toilets, many of which are clean, modern and boast very elaborate high-tech features.

“There are more than five times of germs on a smartphone screen as compared to a toilet seat,” NTT Docomo said in a post on its official YouTube page.

It added that the special cleaning rolls were “made to clean screens so foreign tourists could enjoy their travel hygienically”.

News of the smartphone toilet paper spread rapidly among Facebook users.

BDST: 1555 HRS, DEC 23, 2016
AP